CHAPTER 1
TRIS P.O.V.
"BEATRICE! Get up!"
"Caleb it's 6:30! School doesn't start until 8:30."
"Yeah I know, but you always take forever in the bathroom and well, it doesn't really help."
"Oh shut up." I groan and get out of bed. Today I start Chicago High. I think the school will be really cool because they have split it into the five sections. I heard they call them factions.
Dauntless: The brave
Erudite: The intelligent
Abnegation: The selfless
Candor: The honest
Amity: The peaceful
This school is where my mom met my dad. They were both in Abnegation together. I don't know which faction I'm in yet, Caleb and I took a test about a week ago. We get our results today while we get our schedule. I'm nervous, like really nervous.
After I took the test a lady came up to me, I think her name was Tori, she told me that I didn't get a result.
FLASHBACK
Someone grabbed my arm and pulled me into what looked like a janitors closet. "Hello? Who's in here?"
"My names Tori. I pulled you in here because I have some information I think you would be interested in."
"And what is that information?"
"Your test results were inconclusive. They call it Divergent."
"What? How is that possible?"
"It seems you got more than one faction."
"So?"
"That means that you don't have a set place and people around here certainly don't like that."
"Well do you know which one's I got?"
"Erudite, Dauntless, and Abnegation." Dauntless? Dauntless has always been my choice ever since mom and dad took us here for a visit over the summer last year when I was 15. Now that me and Caleb are 16 we can finally attend the school.
"So what do it do?"
"I will figure that out but for now you can't tell anyone about your results even your parents. If anyone found out you could get seriously hurt."
FLASHBACK OVER
I walk down the hall over to the bathroom. Oh god ew, I look at my reflection and see that my hair has now some how formed a cone on the top of my head and I have a new zit forming right on the top of my nose. GREAT! Just in time for everyone to see me! I hop in the shower and I look down at my body and instantly look away in disgust. I've always hated my body.
It's so scrawny and I have no curves or anything. I look like a 12 year old boy. I hop out of the shower and grab my big, black, fluffy towel and run to my bedroom. I open my closet doors and decide on a black crew neck and my American Eagle dark blue shorts and my black converse.
I run downstairs and put some bread in the toaster. I look at the time and its only 7:00. I still have an hour and thirty minutes so I decide to go and do something nice with my hair for once.
I grab my toast and put nutella on it, my fave. I go back upstairs and turn on my hair straightener. I honestly don't know how it happens but my hair some how dries really fast. And by fast I mean REALLY fast. I take a bite of my toast and start to straighten my hair.
After my hair is straightened and I've finished my toast, I look at the clock and I see that I have forty-five minutes till school starts. This is why I don't wake up early because I have so much time to do nothing and it's boring.
I decide to go to starbucks and do some reading so I go down stairs, say goodbye to my mom, my dad's never really around, and say goodbye to Caleb. We don't have to go to school together anymore ever since I got my license and bought my very own car.
I hope into my Jeep Wrangler, I've always loved adventure sort of cars, and drive to the closest Starbucks I decide to just go through the drive-thru and go to school so I can just read there. I drive up to the window and order a Venti White Chocolate Mocha. On my way to school I get a text from Caleb.
C: Why did you leave without telling me?
T: I did I yelled at you and left
C: Where did you go?
T: Why do you care?
C: Ugh whatever just be safe. See you later
T: Bye
I get to school and park my car. I see there's only one other car in the parking lot. It's 8 why is someone already here? I think while looking at the other car. I see a guy drawing. He looks up and all I see are his eyes. They are the most beautiful shade of dark blue I've ever seen. He then locks eyes with me and I duck and hide behind my steering wheel. I can feel the blood rise to my cheeks. I slowly rise my head and once I do, I see he isn't looking at me anymore.
I open my book and start reading. It's Hamlet by William Shakespeare. I know it's weird to read a play, but I love Shakespeare even though I have no acting skills what so ever.
I sit in my car and read until I look at the clock and see its 8:25 and then I look up and realize that the parking lot is almost full. I get out and I am so confused. I have no idea where anywhere is. I start rummaging through my bag for a map I think I printed offline. And then I drop my bag and everything spills out. Someone steps on my $40 hand lotion that my dad bought me before left for his trip...Two months ago…
"Hello? Can you please watch where you're going?"
"OMG! I'm so sorry! I was texting and didn't see you down there. What did I break or step on this time?"
"Is this a regular thing for you? It was a bottle of hand lotion."
"Yeah, sorta, I'm a clutz. My names Christina. Please let me get you a new bottle?"
"It's fine I don't even use hand lotion, but could you help me find the office." I pick up my last book and sling my bag over my shoulder and rise.
"Oh yeah sure." She walks me through a bunch of buildings each with different signs on them.